Simple Way to Make Eric Ripert Cheesy Ham and Potato soup

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, cheesy ham and potato soup. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Cheesy Ham and Potato soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Cheesy Ham and Potato soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have cheesy ham and potato soup using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Cheesy Ham and Potato soup:

1. Make ready 1/2 lb bacon
2. Make ready 3 each potatoes diced
3. Take 1 small onion diced
4. Prepare 1 large carrot diced
5. Take 1 each celery rib diced
6. Get 4 tbsp bacon grease
7. Take 4 tbsp flour
8. Make ready 2 cup chicken broth
9. Make ready 1 1/2 cup ham diced(or more)
10. Take 1/2 tsp sea salt
11. Get 1/2 tsp black pepper
12. Get 8 oz shredded cheddar cheese
13. Make ready 1 cup heavy cream

Instructions to make Cheesy Ham and Potato soup:

1. Cook bacon in a large frying pan. Crumble and set aside. Save bacon grease.
2. While the bacon is cooking: in a 5 qt dutch oven, or similar size soup or stock pot, cover diced potatoes with water and boil till desired tenderness(about 15 mins). Save 1 and 1/2 cups of water from the cooked potatoes and drain.
3. After bacon is cooked, remove bacon from pan. Keep 4 tbls(I just kept all the grease in the pan from cooking the half pound of bacon) bacon grease in frying pan and add onion, celery, carrot and cook for about 10 minutes or until onions are translucent.
4. Transfer cooked veggies and bacon grease to the empty soup pot that the potatoes were in.
5. Add the 4 tbls flour to the veggies and stir to dissolve flour completely. Cook about 3 mins. (You may want to add a little more flour or bacon grease depending on consistency, but 4 n 4 works well)
6. Slowly add the saved water from the potatoes to the pot while stirring to combine. The mixture should be quite thick.
7. Add the chicken broth, ham, salt, pepper, cooked potatoes and crumbled bacon and return to simmer. Stir well to combine the liquids.
8. Slowly (about a handful at a time) add cheese, let melt a little then stir in. Repeat untill all cheese added and melted.
9. Add heavy cream and stir to combine.
10. Return to simmer and cook 5 to 20 mins.
11. Enjoy! Top with what you like. (Cheese, bacon, green onions, croutons, etc) Or enjoy as is. I like some cheese garlic croutons on mine.

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